It’s doubtful any member of the trio will be claimed. Burnett is owed about $55 million through the end of 2014, and Soriano is guaranteed another $28 million through 2013. Posada is a free agent after this season, but he’s due to make a bit more than $4 million over the rest of the season and no one is going to want him at that price.

Once the players clear waivers, they’ll be eligible to be dealt this month. Still, it’s highly unlikely any will be traded. This is all just part of the routine.

My friend I still think Soriano has a lot of future value for the Yankees. Unfortunately his salary is disproportionately high. But nevertheless he can and will be in my opinion an asset to the Yankees. As for the other 2 in the piece. One can only hope that there is some deaf, dumb and blind GM out there willing to take them off the Yankees hands. I mean a really deaf, dumb and blind GM.

Please don’t use “but nevertheless” together. It’s the same as using a double-negative. It’s either: But; Nevertheless; However; On the other hand; etc. Sorry, it’s a big pet peev of mine, it’s the lawyer in me.

However but nevertheless, if I use three of them in one sentence then that would be a triple negative and thus still result in a negative outcome. On the other hand, I could use just one and that would, nevertheless, be considered better grammar.

Now, I see why the NFL was more successful with their CBA when the lawyers left the room.

so what do they do on the off chance that AJ and/or Soriano actually get claimed? Has to be appealing to shed the salary and more importantly the headaches. However, not sure what the play is with AJ since there’s no elite starting pitcher available in the off-season (other than CC to my knowledge). Do they just get rid of him and hope they young guys are ready by next year? Any thoughts?

they would not pull them back.. they would GLADLY be rid of soriano and AJ.. jorge doesnt matter cause hes only got 2 months left anyway

drmonkeyarmy - Aug 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM

Yeah, ok I see his point now. I completely missed it the first time around. I thought he was concerned that those players, other than Posada, might be claimed. Poor reading comprehension on my part. Carry on.

sdelmonte - Aug 2, 2011 at 8:13 PM

The list of players NOT put on waivers at some point in the next month is probably more interesting.

Doesn’t Soriano’s contract have an out after the first year? If I remember correctly it could become a 1 year contract or something. If that were the case I think a lot more teams would have interest in him.

It might be interesting to see what happens if Soriano is the 7th inning guy behind Mo and Robertson (which he should be), and if Hughes is moved to the bullpen Soriano might be the 6th inning guy (which I would endorse as well since Hughes is the long term asset). I have to think some team would pay him closer money next off-season for 3 or 4 years, even if is it less per year than he would get under his current contract. You have to figure that his current contract would be his last big contract if he remains a middle reliever for 2 more years. The memory of the average GM is short, and if he has no saves they might forget he once carried the Proven Closer seal of approval.

By all accounts he is a competitive guy, and if he really wants to close, I could imagine him walking.

The three most important months lie ahead. If Soriano is awesome going forward, and with Boras as his agent, I could see someone offering him 3 yrs/$30MM or 4 yrs/$32MM-35MM and him saying OK. even a lesser contract for the next 2 year (2yrs/$20MM) with the closer job securely his, will leave him making more money thereafter, because he’ll still be a closer. If he is a $25MM middle reliever for the next 2 years, the contract after that is bupkis.

Dice-K and Lackey. Are you kidding me? You get 5 starters for less money.

John Farrell made Epstein and Francona look good. Neither of them know much about pitchers. Red Sox are going to fizzle out this year and continue down. You can’t get your pitching going, you aren’t going to win much of anything.